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Assembling Ordered Crystals with Disperse Building Blocks Assembling Ordered Crystals with Disperse Building Blocks The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Santos, Peter J. et al. "Assembling Ordered Crystals with Disperse Building Blocks." Nano Letters 19, 8 (July 2019): 5774–5780 © 2019 American Chemical Society As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02508 Publisher American Chemical Society (ACS) Version Final published version Citable link https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129495 Terms of Use Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License Detailed Terms http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial No Derivative Works (CC-BY-NC-ND) Attribution License, which permits copying and redistribution of the article, and creation of adaptations, all for non-commercial purposes. Letter Cite This: Nano Lett. 2019, 19, 5774−5780 pubs.acs.org/NanoLett Assembling Ordered Crystals with Disperse Building Blocks † † Peter J. Santos, Tung Chun Cheung, and Robert J. Macfarlane* Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States *S Supporting Information ABSTRACT: Conventional colloidal crystallization techni- ques typically require low dispersity building blocks in order to make ordered particle arrays, resulting in a practical challenge for studying or scaling these materials. Nano- particles covered in a polymer brush therefore may be predicted to be challenging building blocks in the formation of high-quality particle superlattices, as both the nanoparticle core and polymer brush are independent sources of dispersity in the system. However, when supramolecular bonding between complementary functional groups at the ends of the polymer chains are used to drive particle assembly, these “nanocomposite tectons” can make high quality superlattices with polymer dispersities as large as 1.44 and particle diameter relative standard deviations up to 23% without any significant change to superlattice crystallinity. Here we demonstrate and explain how the flexible and dynamic nature of the polymer chains that comprise the particle brush allows them to deform to accommodate the irregularities in building block size and shape that arise from the inherent dispersity of their constituent components. Incorporating “soft” components into nanomaterials design therefore offers a facile and robust method for maintaining good control over organization when the materials themselves are imperfect. KEYWORDS: Nanoparticles, self-assembly, dispersity, polymer brushes, supramolecular chemistry olloidal crystallization is an effective means of manipulat- synthetic polymers as surface ligands (Figure 1).16 Interest- C ing material structure at the nanometer length scale, as ingly, although NCTs have dispersity originating from both chemical interactions between nanoparticle building blocks can their nanoparticle core and their polymer brush, they can still be used to program their assembly into ordered lattices.1,2 A form lattices with long-range order. We hypothesize that the wide variety of surface ligands have been used to control these ability of NCTs to spontaneously form crystalline lattices interactions and thereby manipulate particle assembly, where despite their inherent size and shape inhomogeneity arises the most stable phases typically maximize either particle from the ability of the polymer brush to easily deform as a packing density or the number of favorable interactions means of maximizing favorable supramolecular interactions between particles’ surface ligands.3,4 In all of these strategies, between particles. Thus, the establishment of appropriate particle size and shape dispersity are regarded as a negative design and processing strategies could enable these “soft” building blocks to overcome significant variations in either factor that must be overcome to create well-ordered crystals, as − See https://pubs.acs.org/sharingguidelines for options on how to legitimately share published articles. 17 19 irregularity in building block shape results in inefficient packing particle core size or ligand length. Here we explain how − Downloaded via MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECHNOLOGY on September 23, 2019 at 12:46:48 (UTC). and limitations to interparticle surface contacts.5 7 As a result, the concept of ligand softness affects the processing pathways many impressive strategies to minimize dispersity in the used to obtain NCT-based colloidal crystals, as well as how particle assembly process have been developed, including these highly deformable surface ligands can mask imperfections 20 multiple techniques for the synthesis of monodisperse particles in particle size or shape during assembly. Ultimately, this − of different shapes,8 10 the use of biopolymer cages to dictate strategy allows for highly disperse nanoparticle components the directionality of interparticle bond formation,11,12 or even (up to 23% variation in particle core diameter) to form the use of molecularly precise biomacromolecules with superlattice architectures without any reduction in crystal ∼ − controlled surface functionalization as colloidal building quality, well beyond the 2 10% limit that is typically − blocks.13 15 However, all of these methods have limits in the required for maximizing the quality of other colloidal crystals. composition of the particles that can be used and tend to result As a result, NCTs represent a unique building block for fi in a trade-off between the quality and quantity of the building nanomaterial synthesis that has signi cant potential for making blocks that can be made. scalable particle-based materials. In contrast to colloidal crystallization approaches that aim to use the least disperse building blocks possible, we have recently Received: June 20, 2019 reported a new self-assembling particle called the Nano- Revised: July 25, 2019 composite Tecton (NCT), which uses inherently nonuniform Published: July 26, 2019 © 2019 American Chemical Society 5774 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02508 Nano Lett. 2019, 19, 5774−5780 Nano Letters Letter bonding pair. When NCTs with complementary supra- molecular binding groups are combined, multiple hydrogen bonds form between the particles; these bonding interactions have been demonstrated to drive the formation of body- centered cubic (bcc)-type superlattices when the NCTs are thermally annealed.16 NCTs are amenable to thermal annealing because the hydrogen bonding interactions are relatively weak, and heating to mild temperatures (below 80 °C) is therefore sufficient to enable rearrangement. Given the inherent dispersity in both the particle sizes and shapes (previous work has demonstrated crystals for particle sizes with a relative standard deviation (RSD) of 15% and polymers with Đ of ∼1.1), the ability of NCTs to adopt conformations with long-range order is somewhat surprising. Understanding and controlling how these soft, high dispersity polymer shells affect crystallization therefore requires first determining how crystal formation is affected by processing pathway, as well as any upper bound in crystal quality that may be imposed on these assembled lattices via the use of a nonuniform and deformable polymer ligand coating. Figure 1. Nanocomposite Tecton assembly scheme. (a) NCTs fi consist of a nanoparticle core, a polymer shell, and a supramolecular The simplest potential thermal annealing pro le to generate binding group. When complementary NCTs are combined, hydrogen ordered NCT arrays is to heat and hold the initially amorphous bonds form between them to drive assembly. (b) Particles containing aggregates at a temperature close to their melting temperature 21 a soft, polymeric shell are more tolerant of dispersity, and when (Tm), analogous to recrystallization and grain growth coupled with an enthalpic driving force they can crystallize into well- processes in classical atomic systems (Figure 2a).22 When organized structures. this thermal annealing profile is used, the NCTs are able to form an ordered lattice but small-angle X-ray scattering The NCTs used in this work consist of gold nanoparticle (SAXS) data indicate that this annealing profile results in (AuNP) cores coated with polystyrene brushes (Figure S1) highly polycrystalline samples with small grain sizes ∼250 nm that terminate in either diaminopyridine (DAP) or thymine in diameter. The small average size of these grains is not (Thy) motifs that constitute a complementary hydrogen entirely unexpected, as the dispersity of the polymer brush fi Figure 2. In situ SAXS measurements of NCT crystallization. (a) Temperature pro le of NCTs heated from room temperature to their Tm and held there while they crystallize (black trace). Annealing results in a gradual increase in domain size, as estimated by the Scherrer equation, but after a 30 min treatment the crystal quality is still poor (blue data points). (b) When NCTs are cooled from an elevated temperature, the nucleation and growth process results in larger crystalline domains. However, further quenching from Tm to room temperature causes the formation of additional amorphous phase aggregates from unassembled NCTs. (c) Cooling the NCTs from an elevated temperature at 4 °C/min results in highly ordered crystals at all temperatures. 5775 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02508 Nano Lett. 2019, 19, 5774−5780 Nano Letters Letter Figure 3. NCT assembly is not strongly affected by the dispersity
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